One of the things that's been bugging me about the circulating lists of food processing plants catching on fire is that I haven't seen any that answer these questions:
Is this historically more than the usual number of fires?
What percentage of food production is represented by these facilities?
How much will this impact the food supply in the near future?
I mean, I don't doubt our would-be Communofascist Overlords are trying to break shit to control it, but I don't want to go full Chicken Little over things that are of little importance in the grand scheme of things.
Food fires are common. Plant shutdowns are common. Usually, the supply chain is in place to make up for these or the impact is minimal because, again, the supply chain can take up the slack after a couple weeks. You might see a "You won't believe what cracked reason why eggs are going up this week!" or "2 injured in fire at food processing facility; delayed production likely to cause minor spike in prices this week."
What you don't normally see are "Small plane crashes into food processing plant, again."
Thing I've been wondering about is the "Atlas Shrugged" scenario where the handful of people who actually know how to run the plant stop giving a shit for whatever reason.
It's probably sucked working at these places for many years/decades, but everyone has their breaking point.
It's good to get some context around this event.
One of the things that's been bugging me about the circulating lists of food processing plants catching on fire is that I haven't seen any that answer these questions:
Is this historically more than the usual number of fires? What percentage of food production is represented by these facilities? How much will this impact the food supply in the near future?
I mean, I don't doubt our would-be Communofascist Overlords are trying to break shit to control it, but I don't want to go full Chicken Little over things that are of little importance in the grand scheme of things.
Food fires are common. Plant shutdowns are common. Usually, the supply chain is in place to make up for these or the impact is minimal because, again, the supply chain can take up the slack after a couple weeks. You might see a "You won't believe what cracked reason why eggs are going up this week!" or "2 injured in fire at food processing facility; delayed production likely to cause minor spike in prices this week."
What you don't normally see are "Small plane crashes into food processing plant, again."
Thing I've been wondering about is the "Atlas Shrugged" scenario where the handful of people who actually know how to run the plant stop giving a shit for whatever reason.
It's probably sucked working at these places for many years/decades, but everyone has their breaking point.